Chain · United States · data through September 2026

C Cafe Rio Mexican Grill logo Cafe Rio Mexican Grill

Iceflower tracks 165 Cafe Rio Mexican Grill stores across 11 US states. It ranks #7 of 168 tracked US Mexican fast food & fast casual chains by card spend. Its share of tracked category spend moved -1.3% over the last year.

Rankings come from real card and bank transactions across a panel of 130M+ US and EU consumers. We publish relative growth and rankings, never revenue figures. About the data

Tracked stores
165
States
11
Category
Mexican Fast Food & Fast Casual
Category rank
#7

Growth

Cafe Rio Mexican Grill against its category

The biggest tracked US Mexican fast food & fast casual chains by card spend, with year-over-year growth of category share. Share means a chain's slice of tracked category spend. It can decline while the chain's own sales grow. The chart tracks Cafe Rio Mexican Grill's share of the category quarter by quarter, indexed to 2024 Q4 = 100.

# Chain YoY share
1 T Taco Bell logo Taco Bell -4.5%
2 C Chipotle Mexican Grill logo Chipotle Mexican Grill +4.7%
3 Q Qdoba logo Qdoba +8.9%
4 M Moe's Southwest Grill logo Moe's Southwest Grill -5.9%
5 D Del Taco logo Del Taco +1.1%
6 E El Pollo Loco logo El Pollo Loco +11.2%
7 C Cafe Rio Mexican Grill logo Cafe Rio Mexican Grill -1.3%
8 C Costa Vida logo Costa Vida +3.7%
9 T Torchy's Tacos logo Torchy's Tacos +8.1%
10 T Taco John's logo Taco John's +1.9%

Share of tracked category spend, indexed

100 91.2 2024 Q4 2026 Q3

Store footprint

Store map

165 tracked Cafe Rio Mexican Grill locations across 11 US states.

Tracked stores by state

Customer overlap

Who shops at Cafe Rio Mexican Grill

Tracked chains Cafe Rio Mexican Grill customers also buy from more than a similarly active shopper would, indexed to the strongest overlap (100). From real card transactions.

M Maverik logo Maverik 86
H Harmons logo Harmons 59
M Macey's logo Macey's 49
H Holiday logo Holiday 45
D Davis Food & Drug 40
C Costa Vida logo Costa Vida 32
S Stewart's Market Castle Dale 31
H Harmons Gas 26

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